Seriously? One tree comes down and we should stop planting trees to line our streets? The ugliest streets in JP are the ones with their trees removed by people like you who seem to think that trees are messy and dangerous. Or maybe you were being sarcastic, in which case I apologize.

There are sidewalk trees down all over the city! Look at the roots on that tree...they're pitiful for a tree that size. It's not that they're "messy" but they are dangerous because none of the trees that are that old were ever put in with the understanding of how they'd co-exist between the sidewalk and their need for a root system. The end result is either complete upheaval of the sidewalk before today (so the tree can grow its roots for stability in wind like Sunday) or collapsed trees that had a footing of about 3 ft by 3 ft.

I care more about the tree than that person's car...and that tree was abused. It just finally lashed back at its abusers. Now, just imagine if the storm had been any stronger around here. Plenty more homes, cars, etc. would have been taken out by these 50+ year old trees that have no foundation because they were expected to just "grow" in the worst conditions possible.

or maybe the city could hire landscape architects to adopt sidewalks, streets and utility corridors which place less restrictions on root growth and let trees do what they've evolved to do in situations like this.